From born to walk — Walking meetings

Walking is increasingly part of the program at urbanist conferences and wellness conferences, and it shares the stage with cycling and mass transit at active transportation and sustainability gatherings, but we obsessive walkers get really excited when there’s an event where walking, as Henry David Thoreau wrote in his 1862 essay “Walking,” is “itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.” Every Body Walk! will be hosting its second annual National Walking Summit in Washington, D.C., in late October, but the cream of the crop is arguably the annual Walk21 conference, to be held in Vienna from October 20 to 23. This year’s motto is “stepping ahead,” and the event is intended to promote “activities and innovations towards the future of our resilient cities and healthy living environments.” Read more: Walking meetings | born to walk

Cities are designed to accommodate cars How do we redesign them to benefit people?

Better urban design could add years to your life#CBCCities Tweets

Charles Montgomery in Salon.com — Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities

Most of us agree that development that provides employment and tax revenue is good for cities. Some even argue that the need for jobs outweighs aesthetic, lifestyle, or climate concerns—in fact, this argument comes up any time Walmart proposes a new megastore near a small town. But a clear-eyed look at the spatial economics of land, jobs, and tax regimes should cause anyone to reject the anything-and-anywhere-goes development model. To explain, let me offer the story of an obsessive number cruncher who found his own urban laboratory quite by chance. Read more: Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities - Salon.com

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Seattle Builds Itself a Woonerf!

Seattle builds itself a #woonerf, ahem, street park. Lovely! http://t.co/0pE1Qi5EU6 http://t.co/Ois7T2J92U @svrdesign @pps_placemaking

— Charles Montgomery (@thehappycity) April 11, 2014

"Object to visualize amount of space average car occupies in the city." Invented by Herman Knoflacher.

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Urban Walking is a Legal High —So Why Are Cities Cruel to Pedestrians?

.@Globeandmail "Better crosswalks, more benches, improved sidewalks…require an act of public and political will..." http://t.co/ibpRfO6yWv
— VPSN (@vpsn) February 25, 2014